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Learn New Skills

Learning new skills is a cornerstone of homesteading and self-sufficiency. Handy crafts like candle making, fiber arts, and soap making can add creativity and sustainability to your homestead. This section provides step-by-step guides to help you master these crafts, whether you’re making your own candles for light or gifts, spinning your own yarn, or creating natural soap. Discover the satisfaction of making useful, handmade items from scratch.

 

 

Getting Leeches Out of a Pond

Learn New Skills

How to Get Leeches Out of a Pond Naturally

Tallow Soap

Soap Making

Homemade Tallow Soap

Natural Dyes

Fiber Arts

Beginner’s Guide to Natural Dyes

How to Render Tallow

Learn New Skills

How to Make Tallow (& Ways to Use It)

Cold Process Soap

Soap Making

20+ Easy Soap Making Recipes for Beginners

Gravity Fed Water for Off Grid

Learn New Skills

Gravity Fed Household Water for Off-Grid Living

Earth Bag Root Cellar

Preserve the Harvest

DIY Root Cellar Plans (Low Cost & Simple Design)

How to Rot a Tree Stump Fast

Learn New Skills

How to Rot a Tree Stump Fast

Driveway Alarm

Emergency Preparedness

How to Install a Driveway Alarm

Candlemaking

Beginner's Guides

Beginners Guide to Candlemaking

Types of Candle Wicks

Candlemaking

How to Choose a Candle Wick (for Homemade Candlemaking)

Best Self Reliant Living Books

Emergency Preparedness

100 Best Books for Self Reliant Living

Spinning angora on a drop spindle

Beginner's Guides

How to Use a Drop Spindle ~ Handspinning for Beginners

Tomato seedlings under DIY Grow Lights

Learn New Skills

DIY Grow Lights for Seed Starting

DIY Apple Rack

Preserve the Harvest

DIY Apple Storage Rack

Using a pedal powered washing machine

Emergency Preparedness

Pedal Powered Washing Machine for Off-Grid Laundry

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